rec.autos.simulators

by **Peter Hoope** » Tue, 10 Jul 2001 06:46:42

Hi all,
Recently upgraded my setup to a 1.2 ghz AMD Athlon on a Via KT133
based motherboard (Chaintech CT-7AJA0), 256mb RAm, V5 5500 64MB AGP
and after a few problems getting everything up and running I thought I
had things sorted out. However, in the last day or so I have twice had
GPL freeze up on me and today N4 also had the same problem. In both
cases the sim freezes with the speakers emitting a loud squealing \
whining noise at the same time.

Anybody else experienced these same problems or have any suggestions
for a fix.

Regards

PH

by **Jason Hoeh** » Tue, 10 Jul 2001 07:58:19

You;re running a very similar system to a buddy of mine, and his problems
have been with his V5 card. he treid it with (oh man, i cant remember what)
another card anyways, and it worked fine,...

by **Russ** » Tue, 10 Jul 2001 12:12:52

Peter,

I too was having probs with screen freezes on an AMD machine however I am
running a GeForce 2 card. I know every says a reinstall however after many
unsuccessful attempts I refomatted my HD and reinstalled everything. I feel
it may have been the sequence that I reinstalled as a previous reformat was
unsuccessful. I bought up the M/B up to date first with all drivers
installed then Video, sound then wheel.

It could be nothing but worth giving a go.

Russ.

by **SimRace** » Wed, 11 Jul 2001 00:22:17

It may be as simple as updating to the latest motherboard chipset drivers
for your new motherboard. I swapped a PIII 700 and mobo out for an AMD 1.2
Ghz on Abit Kt7ARAID and after hooking everything up, Windows went through
and installed all the mobo (system) drivers from Win98SE and I had all sorts
of problems. I went to Viatech (mobo chipset maker) and downloaded their
latest chipset/mobo drivers and installed. The mobo came with some drivers
but were older than was available at their website. Upon unstalling the new
drivers (Via 4n1 for me), everything was back fine and dandy. I think my
main problem was with AGP to CPU bridge drivers, most of my problems were
video related.

SR

> Peter,

> I too was having probs with screen freezes on an AMD machine however I am
> running a GeForce 2 card. I know every says a reinstall however after many
> unsuccessful attempts I refomatted my HD and reinstalled everything. I
feel
> it may have been the sequence that I reinstalled as a previous reformat
was
> unsuccessful. I bought up the M/B up to date first with all drivers
> installed then Video, sound then wheel.

> It could be nothing but worth giving a go.

> Russ.

> > > Anybody else experienced these same problems or have any suggestions
> > > for a fix.

> > You;re running a very similar system to a buddy of mine, and his
problems
> > have been with his V5 card. he treid it with (oh man, i cant remember
> what)
> > another card anyways, and it worked fine,...

by **Peter Hoope** » Wed, 11 Jul 2001 05:48:24

Thanks for that,
However, I dod update the drivers to the latest just last week as I
also had some awful problems initially. I'll just have to see how it
goes over the next few times I run the GPL \ N4 and hope that it turns
out to have been a minor problem.

PH

>It may be as simple as updating to the latest motherboard chipset drivers
>for your new motherboard. I swapped a PIII 700 and mobo out for an AMD 1.2
>Ghz on Abit Kt7ARAID and after hooking everything up, Windows went through
>and installed all the mobo (system) drivers from Win98SE and I had all sorts
>of problems. I went to Viatech (mobo chipset maker) and downloaded their
>latest chipset/mobo drivers and installed. The mobo came with some drivers
>but were older than was available at their website. Upon unstalling the new
>drivers (Via 4n1 for me), everything was back fine and dandy. I think my
>main problem was with AGP to CPU bridge drivers, most of my problems were
>video related.

>SR

>> Peter,

>> I too was having probs with screen freezes on an AMD machine however I am
>> running a GeForce 2 card. I know every says a reinstall however after many
>> unsuccessful attempts I refomatted my HD and reinstalled everything. I
>feel
>> it may have been the sequence that I reinstalled as a previous reformat
>was
>> unsuccessful. I bought up the M/B up to date first with all drivers
>> installed then Video, sound then wheel.

>> It could be nothing but worth giving a go.

>> Russ.

>> > > Anybody else experienced these same problems or have any suggestions
>> > > for a fix.

>> > You;re running a very similar system to a buddy of mine, and his
>problems
>> > have been with his V5 card. he treid it with (oh man, i cant remember
>> what)
>> > another card anyways, and it worked fine,...

by **Peter Hoope** » Wed, 11 Jul 2001 05:49:04

Unfortunately a new vid card is not an option for me at the moment.
Plus I do like the V5.

PH

On Sun, 08 Jul 2001 22:58:19 GMT, "Jason Hoehn"

>> Anybody else experienced these same problems or have any suggestions
>> for a fix.

>You;re running a very similar system to a buddy of mine, and his problems
>have been with his V5 card. he treid it with (oh man, i cant remember what)
>another card anyways, and it worked fine,...

by **Peter Hoope** » Wed, 11 Jul 2001 05:50:27

Well, if things get too bad I suppose a re-install is the only option
but this was all put together from scratch with a newly formatted HD
last week so I am hoping that won't be neccesary.

PH

>Peter,

>I too was having probs with screen freezes on an AMD machine however I am
>running a GeForce 2 card. I know every says a reinstall however after many
>unsuccessful attempts I refomatted my HD and reinstalled everything. I feel
>it may have been the sequence that I reinstalled as a previous reformat was
>unsuccessful. I bought up the M/B up to date first with all drivers
>installed then Video, sound then wheel.

>It could be nothing but worth giving a go.

>Russ.

>> > Anybody else experienced these same problems or have any suggestions
>> > for a fix.

>> You;re running a very similar system to a buddy of mine, and his problems
>> have been with his V5 card. he treid it with (oh man, i cant remember
>what)
>> another card anyways, and it worked fine,...

by **Tom Pabs** » Wed, 11 Jul 2001 10:35:00

Which version of the VIA 4in1 drivers?

TP

by **Joe** » Wed, 11 Jul 2001 14:09:05

In a later post in this thread you mentioned: "....this was all put
together from scratch with a newly formatted HD last week so I am hoping
that won't be neccesary." If this is a new system I assume you have not had
it going long enough to establish any kind of track record on its general
behavior. You have a VIA KT133 chipset. If you also have a SOUNDBLASTER LIVE
then your troubles could possibly be explained here:

http://viahardware.com/download/george/readme.htm

If this sounds like you then you might try looking at the info here:

http://www.viahardware.com/faq/kt7/kt7faq.htm

This is for an ABIT KT7/KT7A series but these also have the VIA KT133
(a) chipsets so some of the fixes here may be workable on yours.

by **Peter Hoope** » Fri, 13 Jul 2001 16:09:39

The 4.32 4 in 1's are the ones I installed last week.

PH

by **Peter Hoope** » Fri, 13 Jul 2001 16:10:45

OK many thanks,

I do also have a SBLive so I'll check those out and see how things go
for a few days.

PH

On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 01:09:05 -0400, "Joe L"

>In a later post in this thread you mentioned: "....this was all put
>together from scratch with a newly formatted HD last week so I am hoping
>that won't be neccesary." If this is a new system I assume you have not had
>it going long enough to establish any kind of track record on its general
>behavior. You have a VIA KT133 chipset. If you also have a SOUNDBLASTER LIVE
>then your troubles could possibly be explained here:

>http://viahardware.com/download/george/readme.htm

> If this sounds like you then you might try looking at the info here:

>http://www.viahardware.com/faq/kt7/kt7faq.htm

> This is for an ABIT KT7/KT7A series but these also have the VIA KT133
>(a) chipsets so some of the fixes here may be workable on yours.

>> Hi all,
>> Recently upgraded my setup to a 1.2 ghz AMD Athlon on a Via KT133
>> based motherboard (Chaintech CT-7AJA0), 256mb RAm, V5 5500 64MB AGP
>> and after a few problems getting everything up and running I thought I
>> had things sorted out. However, in the last day or so I have twice had
>> GPL freeze up on me and today N4 also had the same problem. In both
>> cases the sim freezes with the speakers emitting a loud squealing \
>> whining noise at the same time.

>> Anybody else experienced these same problems or have any suggestions
>> for a fix.

>> Regards

>> PH

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